US Youth soccer pyramid

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Anonymous wrote:BOYS

1) MLS NEXT - because of brand, no legitimate proven track record due brevity of existence. Implementing QoS for U14 and below because we parents are crazy chasing wins and trophies for social media posts over genuine development of players (see DCU, BETHESDA, SYC, ALEXANDRIA)

2) ECNL - because has always been lauded as the top until MLS came and started squashing their club base little by little (see ARLINGTON, FVU, MCLEAN)

3) EDP - because they’ve held their own in the eastern seaboard for years being above NCSL and other glorified rec leagues in their respective states

4) NAL - where clubs that paid to use mls next brand have their so called MLSN-2 teams. No real affiliation to mls but they can in turn dupe unsuspecting parents (see VRSC, TSJ)

4) NCSL - because it’s a glorified rec league that allows all clubs in DMV to make three, four, or five teams per age group to keep the cash coming.

GIRLS

1) ECNL - because there genuinely isn’t a better league for females

2) GA - because they’re essentially two-three years old and if it weren’t for that odd ‘partnership’ with mls nobody would even consider them. They’re like the cheap tacky neighbor to extinct and defunct-due-P2P DA

3) who cares?

On point.

Sort of. MLSN isn’t eating ECNL boys’s lunch little by little. 🤣 they took the whole lunch box and then handed back to ECNL the things they didn’t want. ECNL boys missed the memo from players and parents…kids want the option to climb to the highest ranks OR go to college.

If they don’t catch on, they’re going to lose the girls side too.

Basically nobody but a handful go pro each year and MLSN P2P and ECNL have similar track records for college placements.

This my dad could beat up your stuff over marketing fluff styling as reputations is ridiculous. The kids play on a team not for a club and certainly not for a league.

Yes, and? You’re missing the point of what it offers because you’re too focused on probabilities. Professional athletes, every single one of them, was told “it’s extremely rare”, “basically nobody goes pro”, etc. Yet, every year, some kids do.

MLSN offers that pathway, ECNL doesn’t. And college placement is not similar, MLSN very clearly outperforms ECNL. That isn’t to say ECNL isn’t a good pathway to play college. But college as a pro pathway does not exist anymore for boys, ECNL provides a route with one stop destination, MLSN provides a two stop destination.

You can say it’s unlikely or unrealistic all day long. But the truth is ECNL is just a limited pathway on the boys side, and that is why talent goes to MLSN not ECNL.

MLSN P2P pro path equals ECNL pro path. It's a whatever.

You can say that. But, no...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BOYS

1) MLS NEXT - because of brand, no legitimate proven track record due brevity of existence. Implementing QoS for U14 and below because we parents are crazy chasing wins and trophies for social media posts over genuine development of players (see DCU, BETHESDA, SYC, ALEXANDRIA)

2) ECNL - because has always been lauded as the top until MLS came and started squashing their club base little by little (see ARLINGTON, FVU, MCLEAN)

3) EDP - because they’ve held their own in the eastern seaboard for years being above NCSL and other glorified rec leagues in their respective states

4) NAL - where clubs that paid to use mls next brand have their so called MLSN-2 teams. No real affiliation to mls but they can in turn dupe unsuspecting parents (see VRSC, TSJ)

4) NCSL - because it’s a glorified rec league that allows all clubs in DMV to make three, four, or five teams per age group to keep the cash coming.

GIRLS

1) ECNL - because there genuinely isn’t a better league for females

2) GA - because they’re essentially two-three years old and if it weren’t for that odd ‘partnership’ with mls nobody would even consider them. They’re like the cheap tacky neighbor to extinct and defunct-due-P2P DA

3) who cares?

On point.

Sort of. MLSN isn’t eating ECNL boys’s lunch little by little. 🤣 they took the whole lunch box and then handed back to ECNL the things they didn’t want. ECNL boys missed the memo from players and parents…kids want the option to climb to the highest ranks OR go to college.

If they don’t catch on, they’re going to lose the girls side too.

Basically nobody but a handful go pro each year and MLSN P2P and ECNL have similar track records for college placements.

This my dad could beat up your stuff over marketing fluff styling as reputations is ridiculous. The kids play on a team not for a club and certainly not for a league.

Yes, and? You’re missing the point of what it offers because you’re too focused on probabilities. Professional athletes, every single one of them, was told “it’s extremely rare”, “basically nobody goes pro”, etc. Yet, every year, some kids do.

MLSN offers that pathway, ECNL doesn’t. And college placement is not similar, MLSN very clearly outperforms ECNL. That isn’t to say ECNL isn’t a good pathway to play college. But college as a pro pathway does not exist anymore for boys, ECNL provides a route with one stop destination, MLSN provides a two stop destination.

You can say it’s unlikely or unrealistic all day long. But the truth is ECNL is just a limited pathway on the boys side, and that is why talent goes to MLSN not ECNL.

MLSN P2P pro path equals ECNL pro path. It's a whatever.

You can say that. But, no...

MLSN academies is the only pro path so all pay to play is the same for pro, dead end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BOYS

1) MLS NEXT - because of brand, no legitimate proven track record due brevity of existence. Implementing QoS for U14 and below because we parents are crazy chasing wins and trophies for social media posts over genuine development of players (see DCU, BETHESDA, SYC, ALEXANDRIA)

2) ECNL - because has always been lauded as the top until MLS came and started squashing their club base little by little (see ARLINGTON, FVU, MCLEAN)

3) EDP - because they’ve held their own in the eastern seaboard for years being above NCSL and other glorified rec leagues in their respective states

4) NAL - where clubs that paid to use mls next brand have their so called MLSN-2 teams. No real affiliation to mls but they can in turn dupe unsuspecting parents (see VRSC, TSJ)

4) NCSL - because it’s a glorified rec league that allows all clubs in DMV to make three, four, or five teams per age group to keep the cash coming.

GIRLS

1) ECNL - because there genuinely isn’t a better league for females

2) GA - because they’re essentially two-three years old and if it weren’t for that odd ‘partnership’ with mls nobody would even consider them. They’re like the cheap tacky neighbor to extinct and defunct-due-P2P DA

3) who cares?

Weird post. You sound very ignorant unfortunately. Have you ever asked a legit college head coach what is the difference between MLSNext, GA or ECNL and which league they prefer to recruit from? When you get your answer, come back and post more but hopefully you wil be more educated the next time you post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BOYS

1) MLS NEXT - because of brand, no legitimate proven track record due brevity of existence. Implementing QoS for U14 and below because we parents are crazy chasing wins and trophies for social media posts over genuine development of players (see DCU, BETHESDA, SYC, ALEXANDRIA)

2) ECNL - because has always been lauded as the top until MLS came and started squashing their club base little by little (see ARLINGTON, FVU, MCLEAN)

3) EDP - because they’ve held their own in the eastern seaboard for years being above NCSL and other glorified rec leagues in their respective states

4) NAL - where clubs that paid to use mls next brand have their so called MLSN-2 teams. No real affiliation to mls but they can in turn dupe unsuspecting parents (see VRSC, TSJ)

4) NCSL - because it’s a glorified rec league that allows all clubs in DMV to make three, four, or five teams per age group to keep the cash coming.

GIRLS

1) ECNL - because there genuinely isn’t a better league for females

2) GA - because they’re essentially two-three years old and if it weren’t for that odd ‘partnership’ with mls nobody would even consider them. They’re like the cheap tacky neighbor to extinct and defunct-due-P2P DA

3) who cares?

Weird post. You sound very ignorant unfortunately. Have you ever asked a legit college head coach what is the difference between MLSNext, GA or ECNL and which league they prefer to recruit from? When you get your answer, come back and post more but hopefully you wil be more educated the next time you post.

haha I’m a college coach and spend most of my time looking at MLS for boys and ECNL for girls. The rest? Charlatanerie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BOYS

1) MLS NEXT - because of brand, no legitimate proven track record due brevity of existence. Implementing QoS for U14 and below because we parents are crazy chasing wins and trophies for social media posts over genuine development of players (see DCU, BETHESDA, SYC, ALEXANDRIA)

2) ECNL - because has always been lauded as the top until MLS came and started squashing their club base little by little (see ARLINGTON, FVU, MCLEAN)

3) EDP - because they’ve held their own in the eastern seaboard for years being above NCSL and other glorified rec leagues in their respective states

4) NAL - where clubs that paid to use mls next brand have their so called MLSN-2 teams. No real affiliation to mls but they can in turn dupe unsuspecting parents (see VRSC, TSJ)

4) NCSL - because it’s a glorified rec league that allows all clubs in DMV to make three, four, or five teams per age group to keep the cash coming.

GIRLS

1) ECNL - because there genuinely isn’t a better league for females

2) GA - because they’re essentially two-three years old and if it weren’t for that odd ‘partnership’ with mls nobody would even consider them. They’re like the cheap tacky neighbor to extinct and defunct-due-P2P DA

3) who cares?

Weird post. You sound very ignorant unfortunately. Have you ever asked a legit college head coach what is the difference between MLSNext, GA or ECNL and which league they prefer to recruit from? When you get your answer, come back and post more but hopefully you wil be more educated the next time you post.

haha I’m a college coach and spend most of my time looking at MLS for boys and ECNL for girls. The rest? Charlatanerie

Being a college coach on the men's and women's side at the same time sounds Charlatanerie.